| 2018 |
Pippa Norris, Harvard University
Political Recruitment: Gender, Race, and Class in the British Parliament. Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| 2018 |
Joni Lovenduski, Birkbeck, University of London
Political Recruitment: Gender, Race, and Class in the British Parliament. Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| 2017 |
Anne Phillips, London School of Economics
The Politics of Presence. Oxford University Press. |
| 2016 |
Susan Stokes, Yale University
Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| 2015 |
G. Bingham Powell, University of Rochester
Elections as Instruments of Democracy. Yale University Press, 2000. |
| 2014 |
Matthew Shugart, University of California, Davis
Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, 1992 |
| 2014 |
John Carey, Dartmouth College
Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, 1992 |
| 2013 |
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
Social Choice and Individual Values (Yale University Press 1951) |
2012
2011 |
William Riker, (Deaceased)
Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Social Choice (W.H. Freeeman, 1982)
Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution
An Economic Theory of Democracy (Harper, 1957) |
2010
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Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego
Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) |
| 2009 |
Sidney Verba, Harvard University
Participation and Political Equality: A Seven Nation Comparison (New York: Cambridge University Press) |
2009
2008 |
Norman Nie, Stanford University
Participation and Political Equality: A Seven Nation Comparison (New York: Cambridge University Press)
Michel Balinski,
Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One-Man One-Vote (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982) |
| 2008 |
H. Young, Johns Hopkins University
Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One-Man One-Vote (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982) |
| 2007 |
Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego
Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral System |
| 2006 |
Seymour Lipset
Party Systems and Voter Alignments (New York: Free Press, 1967) |
| 2006 |
Stein Rokkan
Party Systems and Voter Alignments (New York: Free Press, 1967) |
| 2005 |
V. Key Jr., late of Harvard University
"Southern Politics" |
| 2004 |
Douglas Amy, Mount Holyoke College
Real Choices/New Voices (Columbia University Press, 2002) |
| 2003 |
Gary Cox, University of Calrifornia-San Diego
The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parities in Victorian England (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) |
| 2002 |
David Butler, Oxford University
Political Change in Britain (St. Martin's Press, 1971) |
| 2002 |
Donald Stokes, Princeton University
Political Change in Britain (St. Martin's Press, 1971) |
| 2001 |
Bernard Grofman, University of California-Irvine
Choosing an Electoral System (Praeger, 1984) and Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences (Agathon, 1986) |
| 2001 |
Arend Lijphart, University of California-San Diego
Choosing an Electoral System (Praeger, 1984) and Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences (Agathon, 1986) |
| 2000 |
G. Bingham Powell Jr., University of Rochester
Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability and Violence (Harvard University Press, 1982) |
| 1999 |
Matthew Shugart, University of California, San Diego
Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems (Yale University Press, 1989) |
| 1999 |
Rein Taagepera, University of California-Irvine
Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems (Yale University Press, 1989) |
| 1998 |
Richard Katz, Johns Hopkins University
A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980) |
| 1997 |
Harold Gosnell
Why Europe Votes? (University of Chicago, 1930) |
| 1996 |
Roy Pierce, University of Michigan
Political Representation in France (Belknap Press, 1986) |
| 1996 |
Philip Converse, University of Michigan
Political Representation in France Belknap Press, 1986) |
| 1995 |
Arend Lijphart, University of California-San Diego
Democracies (Yale University Press, 1984) |
| 1994 |
W. Mackenzie
Free Elections |
| 1993 |
Enid Lakeman
How Democracies Vote: A Study of Electoral Systems (London: Faber & Faber, 1974) |
| 1992 |
Robert Dixon George Washington University
Democratic Representation: Reapportionment in Law and Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968) |
| 1991 |
Hanna Pitkin, University of California-Berkeley
The Concept of Representation (University of California Press, 1967) |
| 1990 |
Maurice Duverger, Sorbonne-University of Paris
Political Parties (John Wiley) - originally published as Les Partis Politiques (Armand Coplin) |
| 1989 |
Douglas Rae, Yale University
The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws (Yale University Press, 1967; 2nd revised edition, 1971) |